The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-03-03
ANOTHER HOMICIDE
OUT AT ELM GROVE YESTERDAY
a wheeling MIN Fatally Shot by n Miner
Employed mt Chambers Coal Works.
Tho AnaIr Wrapped In n good dchl
OF Mystery-Tho Shooter In Jail.

Between four and five o'clock las. oven.
Ing nm affair occurred at Chambers coal
works, at Elm Grove, which adds another
homicide 10 the already considerable list
Of tragedies which have happened in that
part Of tho county. Tho victim was a well
known and well liked young resident OF
East Wheeling, and the man OF whose
hands he lost his lie a miner employed
by the Chambers, who has been q resident
Of Elm Grove for about three months,
having come there from Washington, Pa.
Tho affair, 60 far as 10 known, was only
witnessed by two persons al homo distance
from tho scene Of the nhoo.ing, SO that
little can be told Of the circumstances
preceding or surrounding 1t.
William o'Neill, a young man OF % or
90 years, who lived on Eighteenth street,
and was known 10 his companions and
acquaintance ss "Pudgena" O'Neill, went
ont to Elm Grove yesterday afternoon.
When he left the city shortly after noon
lie was perfectly sober and in a cheerful
and good humored frame Of mind.
MOT FOUR TIMES.
His Grand to the village out the Hemp
aold Is not definitely known. While
there he met Elmor Clark, q miner
employed at Chambers & Bros. coal works,
and the two spent some time together.
They we're standing u nhort distance be-
low the coal chute, and about on the sitC
OF tho old coal tipple, when the few peo.
pie within sight saw Clark draw n reyol.
yer from bio hip pocket, and taking DELHI
crate aim, fired ut O'Nolll, who waS only Il
few feet away. 0'Nei!l turned and ntarted
10 run up tho hill. Clark fired again,
when O'Neill fell on his face. Clark sd.
vanced close to his eide and placing the
pistol closo 10 lis prcstrate form fred
twice in quick succession.
Clark then left, and made hia way to
the house OF q man named Martin, who
lives near. A crowd soon gathered, end
the wounded man was carried TO Frank
Martins. Dr.. Cracrait was quickly sum
moned, and Dr.. Reed Baird also telephoa'
ed for. They reached tbs houao' prompt
", and proceeded 10 make su examira'
ton.
1t was found that Que ball had lodged
in tho b,ein; another had pierced
thu back and lodged somewhere in the
chest, another i'll the neck and the fourth
in the ileshy part OF the arm. The
physicians gave 1t Rs their opinion tina
O'Neill could not Iva half IN hour.
II VICTIM WILL DIE.
0'Ncili was apparently unconscious
from tho time he fell. TO never spoke
after tho crowd reached him, and in gpite
Of all tho doctors could do for him he wal
breathing his lest at midnight.
Constable William Thornburg was mott.
fled Of the shooting, aud Gscsrtsining
where Clark WIGS, he went to the house to
arrest him. AS soon Gs Clark SAW him he
said:
"Wsll, Bill, reckon I'm tho man you're
alter"
Tho,nburg said he WIS, and placed him
under arrest. Clark, who is large, pow
erlully built man, made no Resistance. He
was arraigued before Squire William
Brown, OF Elm Grove, who committed
him to jail, and he waa brought to town
by Constables Thornburg and Will Love,
who had como out into the country to serve
some attachment papers. lie refused to
speak on tho subject Of the shooting fur.
ther than to say just before his arrest that
he shot O'Neill in self defenE0; that the
lntter came to Elm Grove looking for o
%fracas, and he gotit.
John o. Pendleton waa sent for shortly
after Clark was lodged in jail and re.
tanned to defend him. Prosecuting Attor.
ney Jordan and Squire George Arkle
went out 10 Elm Grove last night to in.
vestigate the affair.